Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 230 293
Rank change year-on-year -86 +63 -76
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 506 566 937
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.35% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.46% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 214 310 530
10th Percentile £42,437 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,633 £56,357 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,255 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £91,563 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £111,375 £111,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,627 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.40% +10.10% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,702 38,866 81,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.29% 92.92% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40,633 22,660 59,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -69 461 £67,500 -3.57% 288
London +38 280 £85,000 +13.33% 157
Work from Home +55 246 £72,500 +11.54% 158
UK excluding London -178 171 £63,076 -2.40% 177
North of England -34 63 £75,000 -6.25% 35
North West -12 38 £85,000 +6.18% 13
Midlands -49 33 £60,000 -4.00% 27
South East -135 27 £52,500 -19.23% 68
East of England -22 25 £61,300 -5.69% 25
West Midlands -39 25 £57,500 -8.00% 12
Yorkshire -48 22 £63,076 +94.08% 18
South West -78 16 £62,500 +4.17% 13
East Midlands -58 8 £116,250 +121.43% 15
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 2
Scotland -26 4 £55,000 +22.22% 9
North East -40 3 £63,076 -23.54% 4
Wales -28 2 £72,251 +20.71% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 17 (3.36%) Confluence
3 11 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.40%) CICS
5 2 (0.40%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (6.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.40%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (3.95%) Workfront
2 6 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (15.02%) AWS
2 64 (12.65%) SaaS
3 49 (9.68%) Azure
4 34 (6.72%) iPaaS
5 21 (4.15%) GitHub
6 19 (3.75%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.75%) Pulumi
7 17 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 13 (2.57%) GCP
9 11 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.78%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.58%) H2O.ai
12 8 (1.58%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.38%) Asana
13 7 (1.38%) Figma
14 5 (0.99%) PaaS
14 5 (0.99%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.79%) Google Analytics
15 4 (0.79%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 59 (11.66%) Broadband
2 24 (4.74%) HTTP
3 9 (1.78%) SD-WAN
3 9 (1.78%) WAN
4 6 (1.19%) LAN
4 6 (1.19%) RTP
5 4 (0.79%) NGN
6 3 (0.59%) Multicast
6 3 (0.59%) Network Security
6 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.59%) Wireless
7 2 (0.40%) Firewall
7 2 (0.40%) VPN
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.70%) Metadata
2 19 (3.75%) NoSQL
2 19 (3.75%) RDBMS
2 19 (3.75%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.36%) Power BI
4 9 (1.78%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.99%) Tableau
6 4 (0.79%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.59%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.40%) Big Data
8 2 (0.40%) DB2
9 1 (0.20%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 28 (5.53%) JIRA
2 19 (3.75%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 182 (35.97%) Finance
2 163 (32.21%) Social Skills
3 149 (29.45%) Marketing
4 86 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (16.60%) Banking
6 66 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (11.46%) Retail
8 56 (11.07%) Law
9 47 (9.29%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (7.91%) Presentation Skills
11 32 (6.32%) Legal
12 29 (5.73%) Back Office
13 27 (5.34%) Public Sector
14 25 (4.94%) Financial Institution
15 20 (3.95%) Manufacturing
16 19 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (2.57%) Digital Economy
17 13 (2.57%) Italian Language
17 13 (2.57%) Retail Banking
18 12 (2.37%) German Language
Job Titles
1 144 (28.46%) Product Manager
2 83 (16.40%) Senior
3 72 (14.23%) Lead
4 56 (11.07%) Product Owner
5 43 (8.50%) Senior Manager
6 36 (7.11%) Senior Product Manager
7 25 (4.94%) Development Engineer
7 25 (4.94%) Software Engineer
8 24 (4.74%) Software Development Engineer
9 22 (4.35%) Developer
10 19 (3.75%) Consultant
10 19 (3.75%) Product Lead
11 17 (3.36%) Senior Development Engineer
11 17 (3.36%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 17 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (2.96%) Digital Product Manager
13 13 (2.57%) Business Consultant
13 13 (2.57%) Business Development Consultant
13 13 (2.57%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.14%) REST
2 19 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.58%) Keras
3 8 (1.58%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.58%) TensorFlow
4 5 (0.99%) YAML
5 3 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.40%) .NET
6 2 (0.40%) CSS
6 2 (0.40%) HTML
6 2 (0.40%) Spring
6 2 (0.40%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.20%) EDI
7 1 (0.20%) JSON
7 1 (0.20%) RESTful
7 1 (0.20%) SOAP
7 1 (0.20%) XML
7 1 (0.20%) XMPP
7 1 (0.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 134 (26.48%) Product Ownership
2 46 (9.09%) Social Media
3 36 (7.11%) Marketing Technology
4 35 (6.92%) Over-the-Top Content
5 33 (6.52%) Cloud Native
6 26 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (4.94%) Onboarding
7 25 (4.94%) Public Cloud
8 24 (4.74%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.78%) Web Conferencing
11 8 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.38%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.38%) Podcast
12 7 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.19%) IoT
13 6 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.55%) Linux
2 19 (3.75%) Unix
3 6 (1.19%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (59.68%) Roadmaps
2 237 (46.84%) Agile
3 149 (29.45%) Product Roadmap
4 111 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 110 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 107 (21.15%) Product Vision
7 104 (20.55%) AI
8 100 (19.76%) Mentoring
9 97 (19.17%) Decision-Making
10 96 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (18.18%) Product Strategy
12 85 (16.80%) User Stories
13 74 (14.62%) User Experience
14 70 (13.83%) Analytics
15 67 (13.24%) Customer Experience
16 65 (12.85%) Product Backlog
17 63 (12.45%) Product Requirements
18 61 (12.06%) DevOps
18 61 (12.06%) Software Engineering
19 59 (11.66%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.49%) Java
2 33 (6.52%) Python
3 25 (4.94%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.95%) Go
5 19 (3.75%) Bash
6 16 (3.16%) SQL
7 6 (1.19%) Bicep
8 5 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.59%) R
10 2 (0.40%) C#
10 2 (0.40%) COBOL
10 2 (0.40%) JCL
10 2 (0.40%) PHP
10 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (17.00%) Degree
2 26 (5.14%) Master's Degree
3 22 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.95%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.38%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.19%) HNC
8 5 (0.99%) MBA
9 4 (0.79%) CISSP
10 3 (0.59%) CCNA
10 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.59%) HND
10 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.59%) PMP
11 2 (0.40%) ACCA
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CIMA
11 2 (0.40%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.74%) QA
2 11 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.38%) GDPR
5 6 (1.19%) NCSC
5 6 (1.19%) PMO
6 5 (0.99%) NIST
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.59%) PERC
9 2 (0.40%) COREP
9 2 (0.40%) FINREP
9 2 (0.40%) GRC
9 2 (0.40%) IFRS
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) GMP
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (4.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (6.32%) Terraform
2 22 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.75%) Ansible
3 19 (3.75%) Argo
3 19 (3.75%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.50%) Adobe
3 34 (6.72%) Google
4 9 (1.78%) Oracle
4 9 (1.78%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.58%) Databricks
5 8 (1.58%) Dell
5 8 (1.58%) NVIDIA
6 5 (0.99%) Cisco
7 4 (0.79%) Facebook
7 4 (0.79%) Foundry
7 4 (0.79%) Toshiba
7 4 (0.79%) YouTube
8 3 (0.59%) Apple
8 3 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.59%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.59%) ION Trading
8 3 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (0.59%) Tenable
8 3 (0.59%) Trayport